He accepted a plea bargain and still won’t be out for 9 years; had he gone to trial he likely would have been in prison his entire life.
> Mr. Martin was never charged with leaking information, only illegally retaining national defense information.
These sentences are insane.
They are building a culture of fear, from Manning to Assange to Winner to Snowden: they want everyone to be so afraid of them that the concept of doing the right thing seems equivalent to death.
> Mr. Martin was never charged with leaking information, only illegally retaining national defense information.
These sentences are insane.
They are building a culture of fear, from Manning to Assange to Winner to Snowden: they want everyone to be so afraid of them that the concept of doing the right thing seems equivalent to death.